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Okay i know a lot of ppl are mad about fire arrow spamming...here is my super sexy idea:
When a guard has his fire arrow out and ready to shoot (at which thieves can tell because of the yellow glow on the armor) a thief would be able ot shoot the guard with a water arrow cauing the flame to die and the fire arrow becoming a normal bolt.

Originally posted by -=V12US=- Or make them relightable again, by walking up to a torch or by crouching over a flare.

Virus, your just an endless abyss of cool ideas!

How about getting rid of fire arrows alltogther from the loadouts, and give guards the ability to turn any bolt into a fire bolt by lighting it on a torch or flare! The bolt would have to be fired then and there (I can't see how a guard can carry around 7 flaming bolts in his pocket really, can you? - Especially when guards can dive in and out of water as they can)

If the bolt isn't fired then nothing is lost, tho possibly you could argue that he should loose the bolt he lit.

This could slow down the rate at which bolts could be fired, and stop ppl just whipping out the crossbow and firing them like rockets. It would require preparation or teamwork (one guard could light a flare and light the others crossbow bolt).

On the original idea, I like it, Fire bolts should act like flares when equiped and hit by water.

Cool ideas. I don't know if I like the idea of making any bolt into a firebolt since they can restock. A better way would to be for it to only work with tag bolts or something like that. Or taking away the ability for guards to catch fire could balance it.

This idea is similar to the crossbow in Timesplitters 2(which is where you might have gotten it from ).If you had the crossbow equipped,and pointed it into a torch,the bolt would catch on fire.I have another idea to add that might make it balanced.Imagine to make it a firebolt,you would need some cloth soaked in gas and you only have like 5 or so per map.Or they can make it buyable in the loadouts.That way,you have to conserve it,and not just go crazy with replenishible bolts.Let me know if this sounds like a ok idea.

Originally posted by Grey_Fôx This idea is similar to the crossbow in Timesplitters 2(which is where you might have gotten it from ).If you had the crossbow equipped,and pointed it into a torch,the bolt would catch on fire.I have another idea to add that might make it balanced.Imagine to make it a firebolt,you would need some cloth soaked in gas and you only have like 5 or so per map.Or they can make it buyable in the loadouts.That way,you have to conserve it,and not just go crazy with replenishible bolts.Let me know if this sounds like a ok idea.

Hmm, that sounds a little too confusing, buying stuff so you can make stuff using other stuff...

I did like the idea of guards not being able to catch fire though, that would balance it...
Also, if a guard lights a bolt on fire, he cannot switch weapons, or he'd lose his fire arrow, and if a fire-arrow is carried longer than a minute, it fades and becomes a normal arrow again.

Originally posted by -=V12US=- Hmm, that sounds a little too confusing, buying stuff so you can make stuff using other stuff...

I did like the idea of guards not being able to catch fire though, that would balance it...
Also, if a guard lights a bolt on fire, he cannot switch weapons, or he'd lose his fire arrow, and if a fire-arrow is carried longer than a minute, it fades and becomes a normal arrow again.

I only see one problem with this. Guards have an infinite supply of flares and bolts from the chest, so they have nearly an endless supply of fire bolts. Even if they could only make/carry one at a time, imagine a team of four guards, one lights a flare, and the guards all light up their bolts on it. That's 400 loot worth of fire bolts right there.

Yes that may well be so, but the bolts would only last for 1 minute before deminishing, and they'd take a while to light (I think as long as a normal torch does would be suitable)

Most of the time, a thief would see that the bolts are being prepared and make a run for it, unless the guard decides to partrol the level with his crossbow out. (Which would make him slower and therefore more vunerable)

And if a team of 4 guards can co-ordinate like you say, then more power to them! good teamwork!

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Meh. Gaurds, i dont feel like it for you guys. Not like anyone will find this amusing anyway